Improving Care for Older Adults
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$1.5 Million Grant Expands Penn’s Undergrad Minority Health Research Pipeline
NIA Funding Launches PARC and LDI’s New GEAR UP Program
Improving Care for Older Adults
Improving the health, well-being, independence, and care of older adults.
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Improving Care for Older Adults
News
NASEM Report Calls for Sweeping Reorganization of Nursing Home Industry
Two LDI Senior Fellows Weigh in on Decades of Industry Shortcomings
Improving Care for Older Adults
Blog Post
Leveraging Comprehensive, Community-Based Care Programs To Improve Care for Black and Latino Older Adults
The Program of All-Inclusive Care For the Elderly (PACE) Model Provides More Equitable Health Care While Helping Keep People in Their Communities
Our Experts
Meet LDI Fellows whose expertise relates to improving care for older adults.
Joanna Hart, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Norma Coe, PhD
- Associate Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine
Olivia Mitchell, PhD
- International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor, Business Economics and Public Policy, Wharton School
- Professor, Insurance and Risk Management, Wharton School
Patrick J. Brennan, MD
- Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD
- Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, Medical Ethics & Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine
- Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, Health Care Management, Wharton School
Jennifer Walter, MD, PhD, MS
- Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine
- Associate Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine
Kira Ryskina, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Department of General Internal Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Katherine Pumphrey, MHA, MD
- Fellow, Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Improving Care for Older Adults Working Group
This working group brings people together to address questions relating to access, quality, and financing of care particularly relevant to an aging society and to disseminate related research. Care includes acute care, post-acute care, home care, caregiving, long-term services and supports, nursing homes, assisted living and other residential care options, hospice, and care received at the end of life.
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Analysis of Medicare Data Indicates Enrollment in Capitated MA Increases the Likelihood of Hospice Use and Dying at Hospice
$1.5 Million Grant Expands Penn’s Undergrad Minority Health Research Pipeline
NIA Funding Launches PARC and LDI’s New GEAR UP Program
Advance Directives May Inadvertently Harm Advance Care Planning
Patients “Set and Forget” Advance Directives, Leaving Family and Clinicians in the Dark and Advance Care Plans Incomplete
Nursing Home Value-Based Program Needs Redesign to Support Biden Goals
Initial Structure Helped “Rich Get Richer”
Leveraging Comprehensive, Community-Based Care Programs To Improve Care for Black and Latino Older Adults
The Program of All-Inclusive Care For the Elderly (PACE) Model Provides More Equitable Health Care While Helping Keep People in Their Communities
NASEM Report Calls for Sweeping Reorganization of Nursing Home Industry
Two LDI Senior Fellows Weigh in on Decades of Industry Shortcomings